Assamese film ‘Aakuti’ heads to New York Indian Film Festival 2026

Snigdha P Roy’s Assamese debut diagnostic Aakuti (Longing) follows the affectional travel of eight-year-old Lakhi arsenic she copes with the nonaccomplishment of her mother. The movie has been selected for the contention conception astatine the New York Indian Film Festival 2026, earning nominations for Best Debut Film and Best Child Actor (Kavisha Mahanta). It besides marks Snigdha’s debut arsenic a writer-director.

Born and raised successful Guwahati and present based successful Mumbai, Snigdha, who besides works arsenic an editor, says, “I had ever decided that erstwhile I made my archetypal film, it would beryllium successful Assamese. Aakuti was initially conceived arsenic a short, but arsenic I developed it, I realised it had the scope to go a feature.”